Test if you are on the left or the right politically

[Pam-Moby]

http://www.politicalcompass.org/

[NervousRex]

1. Thanks...

but what's the point?

[imenja]

30. It's like a Cosmo quiz

it doesn't have a real point. It's just fun.

[DianeG5385]

2. That was interesting

I'm in the same block with nelson mandela and mahatma ghandi. I am interested in understanding how my beliefs relate. My job is contra-indicative.

[Pam-Moby]

4. So was I

I found it interesting that bush and kerry were not that far off from eachother on this test!!!! :freak:

[lachattefolle]

21. Kind of makes me feel a little better if Kerry does end up truly losing

after a recount. I was with Mandela and the Dali Lhama, and shocked to see how close Bush and Kerry really were.

[imenja]

44. hate to break the bad news

but he lost a month ago. The outcome is not going to change. I know it's hard, but you have to face it so that you can help to bring about Democratic victory in the future.

[Just Me]

17. Me, too. Thanks for posting this site.

I lost track of it.

Although I still think it's too simplistic and other axes ought to be added,...at least it gives folks some direction about where their believes lie in our political spectrum.

[ever_green]

46. me too.

That's where I was.

[LostInAnomie]

3. Libertarian Left

[DianeG5385]

5. Wow

maybe we have a new party in the making?

[foreigncorrespondent]

6. I'm the same as you!

Mine came out as:

Economic Left/Right: -8.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.77

[MelanieArt]

7. Thanks for posting the link

Here's mine:

Left/Libertarian Quadrant
Economic Left/Right: -5.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.10

Looks like I'm pretty similar to the rest of you who've posted, more or less. :)

[mitchtv]

8. Thanks, I ended up close to Ghandi

about the same

[natureman]

9. Very interesting

For me:

Left/Right -6
Auth / Lib. -1

What am I doing here in Texas?

[AverageJoe]

10. Here's me!

Economic Left/Right: -9.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.79

I'm almost off the chart, libertarian left....

[Il_Coniglietto]

53. Me too

Economic Left/Right: -8.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.67

And Freepers tell us we don't love our freedom...ha!

[distantearlywarning]

11. Right in the middle of the Libertarian Left

Near Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and the Dalai Lama, like everyone else!

And very, very far away from every other leader in the entire world, apparently...

No wonder I feel so estranged from the powers that be. I need a new party with a person who believes the things I do as the head of it!

[blokenblue]

12. Not bad

hmm i have moved a little more southwest since the last time i taken this test.

Economic Left/Right: -6.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.03

[Kitka]

13. Economic Left/Right: -6.88, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.31...

I've taken it many times, and it's always been further southwest than that. Hmmmm....

[Penguin31]

14. Economic Left/Right: -6.12, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.95

I'm pretty much in the same place as always, at least Socially...Economic drifted slightly (.5-ish) to the right compared to normal...Probably just difference in answer choices on the strong/not strong aspect

[legally blonde]

15. Libertarian Left

Economic Left/Right: -4.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.51

I'm in good company! :hi:

[American Tragedy]

16. Economic: -5.21 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.44

No surprise here. I am convinced that almost everybody on DU who takes the political compass would wind up somewhere in the lower left quadrant. In fact, I suspect that many Americans in their heart would lean in that direction.

What I find disturbing is how many contemporary politicians are classified as authoritarian right. What do you guys make of that? Are they out of step?

[blokenblue]

32. I don't know but

I think most people don't really know they're political affinity and i think most republicans who took the test and showed up in the south left would probably think the test was rigged I can tell you one thing every political test i have ever taken has put me either into the liberal left or socialist category. I do think republicans like bush are accurately placed by the test just by looking at the policies bush supports and pushes. I am sure a number of the bush supporters are genuine republicans but a lot of republicans i have met personally (that are not religious) actually believe that republicans support an agenda thats for the poor and that liberals support an agenda that supports the rich. Which is probably why the current political mind set of the people are ass backward from what they were years ago, it used to be the harder it was for poor people, the worse the living standards got the more people would lean to the left and now the worse things get the more people lean to the right. As for religious people i have had several religious people that i know take the test some of them end up in the left some end up in the right but almost all of them end up authoritarian. Unless of course they come from a really liberal church that doesn't focus on old testament crap i know the church my grandmother goes to is pushes old testament a lot.

[Guarionex]

18. Libertarian left

I'm a Libertarian Leftist...but I knew that...

I'm a socialist opposed to Mao, Castro, Stalin, and the rest of the "communists".

I'm still "flirting" with anarchism...and intrigued by it...but I haven't the full jump into it.

Hey, I'm with Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama....coool!!!!

[chefgirl]

19. Right down there near Ghandi

At least I'm consistent. The last time I took this test, I came out with just about the same result.

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -4.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.74

-chef-

[strategery blunder]

20. Economic Left/Right: -7.25, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.36

I know I've taken this test before, but I don't remember exactly what I got last time...:(

However, I do remember that I was (and still am) in the Libertarian Left.

I'm even more 'librul' than Ralph Nader, hehehe:evilgrin:

[Godhumor]

22. One more for the Libertarian left..

Economic: -5.62
Social: -7.59

[newyawker99]

50. Hi Godhumor!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[prof_science]

23. OMG I'm a fucking freeper!

Better get my ass off this forum and move to Utah!

Nah, just kidding. I'm like Gandhi's twin brother.

[Bush was AWOL]

24. Libertarian Left

Economic Left/Right: -2.88 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.41

[Swamp Rat]

25. I'm in the bottom left corner

Gandhi is a republican compared to me.

[frank frankly]

35. me too

lower left corner...best place to be!

[Swamp Rat]

37. When things get bad enough we can just jump off the grid

since we're so close to Utopia. :D

[magellan]

26. And another

Economic Left/Right: -5.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.67

Dude, where's our political leaders?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

27. Economic Left/Right: -6.38; Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.59

[Liberaltarian]

28. left libertarian- Economic L/R: -7.38 Scial Libertarian/Authoritaran -6.46

surprise surprise...

right there along with Nelson Mandela and the Dali Lama...pretty nice company.

score:
Economic Left/Right: -7.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.46

[flaminbats]

39. you must be my clone..

Economic Left/Right: -7
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.03

the questions seemed a little like push polling.

[imenja]

29. Looks like I'm the redist here: economic -9.12, libertarian -7.08

interesting test. Thanks for the tip.

[rocktop15]

31. -4.5, -4.2

Near the Dhali Llama and Mandela----not bad company.

[AnIndependentTexan]

33. Economic Left/Right: -6.12, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.85

[seraph]

34. Economic Left/Right: -8.62 -- Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.31

Can I move to Cuba now?

[Forkboy]

36. Something went wrong..it just said "You are a dick!"

:shrug:

[blokenblue]

42. ha ha

i tried answering the questions being as much of a dick as i could and i came out

Economic Left/Right: 7.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 7.23

which is right about where bush is, i guess its official bush is a dick.

[strategery blunder]

45. Oooooooooh, I outdid you on fake freeperishness

Economic Left/Right: 10.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 8.10

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:evilgrin::evilgrin::evilgrin::evilgrin::evilgrin::evilgrin::evilgrin::evilgrin:

(of course, my REAL results are somewhere else on this thread; I'm really Libertarian Left:))

[frustrated_lefty]

38. Fun quiz

lower left quadrant for me, more so than Ghandi.

[Pushed To The Left]

40. I think they changed some questions..

Here are mine:

Economic Left/Right: -5.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.95

A lot of the questions on this quiz seem non-political to me.

[imenja]

43. a number are social/cultural questions

designed to measure the authoritarian/libertarian scale. Most of the others are about class and the nature of the economy rather than current and more transitory political issues. That's my sense of it anyway.

[nebraska007]

41. My stats

Economic Left -5.62
Social Libertarian -5.44

[rman]

47. Left / Right is irrelevant, and Libertarian is not the opposite of Authori

The opposite of Authoritarian is Democracy, where Authoritarian is simply a form of Despotism (*

If you'd look into the libertarian idiology you'd find that much of it is essentially the same as the no-holes-barred capitalism that is practiced by the big corporations. The difference is that Libertarians argue that government should be abandoned and everyhing should be left to market forces. One argument for that is that government is bad because it is corrupt. Interstingly enough you'll have a hard time finding a Libertarian who will mention corporate corruption.

This so called political compass serves no other purpose then to put "Libertarianism" on the map, as though it is a good thing.


*)
Despotism is the opposite of Democracy; it is one continuous scale with less despotism/more democracy towards one end of the scale, and more despotism/less democracy towards the other end of the scale.
The extent of despotism vs democracy in a society can be measured by things such as repression of minorities, economic unequality.

Fascism, tyranny, totalitarianism, dictatorship etc are all forms of despotism. All these have in common that they are anti-democratic.

As explained in the educational movie "Despotism", produced by Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1946.
http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=00178
It is as relevant now as it was then.

[American Tragedy]

49. They aren't referring to libertarian market ideology

The quiz is referring to civil libertarianism vs. moral authoritarianism.

However, in that respect the test is fundamentally flawed. At one point, you are asked whether you personally believe that pre-marital sex is immoral.

However, this overlooks the obvious fact that morality and legality are two different things. I personally consider it immoral of my cousin to lie to me about my aunt, but it is not illegal, nor should it be.

A more germane question for the purposes of the quiz would be whether you believe that law enforcement needs to intervene to prevent pre-marital sex or that government should actively discourage it.

[WildEyedLiberal]

54. Yeah I thought a lot of the questions on the test were very flawed

I thought the entire section about religion was irrelevent, actually. The only thing relevant about religion in relation to politics is whether or not you believe you have a moral imperative to enforce the dogma of your religion as law. I'm a Catholic, and granted I'm a very non-dogmatic Catholic, but it's irrelevant anyway - as I believe in the separation of church and state, I do not believe my personal religious views (or anyone else's) have any bearing at all on the policies this country should enact.

And some of the questions were just strange, like the one about "it's a sad commentary on our society that water is bottled and manufactured." WTF? I drink bottled water all the time. That, to me, is absolutely irrelevant in regards to my political beliefs.

I scored around -3.25 on both economic and social factors, but I still think the quiz is deeply flawed. Also, since the quiz is British (I think...) it doesn't accurately reflect American politics very well. I think it's dangerous to imply that GWB and John Kerry are ideologically similar, when any discerning student of politics can tell you, by studying their records and beliefs, that that isn't so. Did they take Kerry's devout Catholicism into consideration, which probably affects some of his opinions on the "religion/morality" section? If so, then that is a mistake, since Kerry has made perfectly clear that he has no intentions (unlike Bush) of legislating his religion into law.

[toddaa]

61. Leftist Libertarianism

Unfortunately, the "anarcho" capitalists have cooped the word and debased its meaning. The opposite of Authoritarianism isn't Democracy but Anarchism. Democracy can devolve into tyranny of the masses, which is a kind of authoritarianism. As a disillusioned former LP member, I can assure you that not all libertarians are enamored with laissez faire corporate capitalism.

Emma Goldman was a leftist libertarian.

http://www.spunk.org

[nickgutierrez]

48. Economic -- Left/Right: -8.12, Social -- Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.31

That seems about right.

[BernieBear]

51. Lower Left

I'm clustered with Gandhi, The Dalai Lama and Mandala. Very interesting. Thanks!!! BernieBear

[RUDUing2]

52. Economic Left/Right: -5.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.59

lump me with Ghandi and the Dalai Lama

[akwapez]

55. mine:

Economic Left/Right: -4.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.69

[ellie]

56. I'm to the left of Mandela and the Dalai Lama

Economic Left/Right: -9.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.54

[MsUSA]

57. Yikes......Kerry/Bush not that far apart.

Now look at Ralph and David Cobb!! I'm Econ L/R -7.25 and Social L/A -6.62

[VaYallaDawg]

58. Proud to say I was right down there with Gandhi too.

Thanks for posting link, it was fun.

[Done]

59. Economic -9.50, Social -7.54

[ScaRBama]

60. WooHoo!!

I'm hanging out with Ghandi.

[davsand]

62. I've moved further south and west!

Economic Left/Right: -8.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.92

Last time I took this test I was up there close to Ghandi. Now, well, I'm getting to be quite the Libertarian Lefty...

I have to admit, I'm a bit taken by surprise on this since I tend to be a lot more Socialist in my attitudes than this would seem to indicate.


Laura

[Mabeline]

63. Ack...Economic Left/Right: -1.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 2.82

What did I do...? Does this mean I lean more libertarian than left..?

I'm in line with Jacques Chirac and Pope John Paul II

[marieaey]

64. I'm a little bit country and a little rock n roll.........

Ok I'm close to Ghandi but am closer to the center..........does that mean I'm a moderate with left leaning tendencies........oh no.......I am a little bit country.

:)

[AlFrankenFan]

65. Took it before...I got libertarian left

And that's what I consider myself.

[Greylyn58]

66. Looks Like

I'm similar to everyone else here.

Located in the lower left hand of the graph and

Economic Left/Right: -5.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.26

Looks like we got the makings of a new party..hahahaha

:eyes:

[Outrider]

67. Did anyone take the Quotes quiz after the main test? (n/t)

[Cookie wookie]

68. I'm less a libertarian than youse guys

Economic Left/Right: -5.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.67

I've taken this before. They keep updating the questions -- very interesting. I don't see Kerry as Authoritarian Right. Wonder how they figured that.

[phattyt]

69. Interesting...

Economic Left/Right: -7.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.03

It is great to see I am in good company

[Starlight]

70. Economic: -8.00, Social: -6.92 n/t